[OHM] Introduction

[steggink at steggink.org]

Hi,

Today I've joined the OHM mailing list, at the SOTM-EU hackday. I'm  
interested in historical mapping, because one of my other hobbies is  
genealogy. I'm mostly interested in the history of the area where I  
grew up and where my ancestors came from. This area is located in the  
east of the Netherlands, at the German border. I intend to start with  
adding administrative boundaries, farm locations, important buildings  
and perhaps a couple of the (historical) main roads.

For historical mapping I've several resources to my disposal, like  
out-of-copyright maps. During the last 7 years I had a pet project  
with similar functionality as Tim Waters' MapWarper. I can use it to  
warp and reproject scanned maps, and also tile them up in World  
Mercator tiles. Currently I'm looking for a good place to store these  
tiles, so anyone can use them as a reference. It might be interesting  
for other projects as well, for example for genealogists. If someone  
has good ideas regarding this, please let me know.

I'm looking forward to cooperate with you guys.

Regards,

Frank